It's fittingly appropriate that Gretchen Hoffman-- unashamed of unethical tweets posted from the floor of the state senate and given to blythely ignorant statements about people camping in those "private" campgrounds run by counties--hails from Vergas, home of the world's largest loon.
She'll say anything and deny any responsibility for anything.
Even that bastion of right-leaning journalistic opinion, the Fargo Forum, points out in It’s no-win for cities in Minnesota:
No matter how they try to spin it, Republican lawmakers in the Minnesota Legislature are responsible for coming tax increases and/or deep cuts in the budgets of Minnesota cities. The proof of the majority’s culpability was in full view in Moorhead this week. City Council members and city staff struggled to decide how to raise at least part of the shortfall caused by the state by raising property taxes. They struggled further with the other side of the equation: slashing the kind of programs and services that historically have made Moorhead an attractive, livable city.
Leaders of the Republican legislative majority have tried mightily to distance themselves from the fallout of their actions. Sen. Gretchen Hoffman, R-Vergas, for example, refuses to concede that the loss of state aid to cities like Moorhead is translating into higher property taxes, or cuts in not only amenities, but also basic services. If the goal of Hoffman and her like-minded colleagues was to honor their tired mantra “to cut government at all levels,” they appear to be getting there on the backs of local taxpayers and city officials who have to deal with reality, not political ideology.
. . .Lawmakers responsible for dumping their inability to manage the state’s budget onto generally well-managed cities can’t hide behind their nebulous cut-spending religion. The practical and damaging impacts in Moorhead and other cities underscore what can be fairly characterized as legislative malfeasance.
The paper suggests that citizens direct their ire at the legislature, not city hall.
Photo: Vergas's big-ass loon.
Too bad Amy Koch and Matt Zellers are too busy reciting Frank Luntz talking points spin about rich tax deadbeats being "the engines of job creation" to care that our towns and cities are hurting.
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | Dec 02, 2011 at 07:44 PM